Coaches and Directors
Amy has been a part of North Shore Swim Club since she was 6 years old. She swam with NSSC through her time at Lexington High School and continued to swim at The University of Tampa. She swam her way to nationals and received multiple All Scholastic Awards. When school ended, so did swimming. Soon after school she found boxing and is now a certified personal trainer and boxing coach. She had the opportunity to come back to North Shore Swim Club as a program administrator, she is excited to be back in the world of swimming.
(781) 264-1018
Mathew grew up swimming for NSSC and Lexington High School where he won 2 State Championships and multiple All-Scholastic Honors. He attended and swam for Indiana University where he was also an assistant coach for the Bloomington Swim Club. Mathew coached for NSSC for 1 year and he decided he wanted to complete one of his life goals and compete at Olympic Trials. After training for 9 months with NSSC he was able to record a personal best and make it to Omaha to compete in the 100 butterfly at the 2012 Olympic Trials. As well as being a level 2 USA swimming certified coach, Mathew is also a certified personal trainer. Coach Mat will continue to bring his knowledge and love of swimming to the next generation of swimmers. His new goal is to help children to grow and reach their full potential, not only as swimmers, but as positive, productive people.
Phone Number: (781) 264-1017
Dave Martin, Associate Head Coach. Prior to joining the North Shore Swim Club, Dave was head coach of the Potomac Raiders & Chesapeake Bay Swim Teams in LaPlata, Maryland. Over his six years in Maryland he coached numerous State Champions, Eastern Zone finalists and several Sectional qualifiers. He graduated from The University of Pittsburgh, where he swam distance freestyle. Before coaching in Maryland, Dave coached Upper St. Clair High School and other USS programs in the Pittsburgh area. As a Facility Head Coach Dave will continue to work toward his goal of developing each swimmer to his or her fullest potential.
Phone number: (978) 866-3387
Swimming is Amy‘s life. With over 25
years as a competitor and coach, Amy brings unprecedented expertise
and high expectations to the sport. In her 18 years as a coach, 15
spent at Matignon High School in Cambridge, and currently the coach
at Manchester Essex Regional High School, Amy challenges her
swimmers in and out of the pool. The best part? They respond!
Amy’s Matignon team brought home the first ever MIAA
sportsmanship Award in the school’s history. Amy is ready to
not only train you to be the best swimmer you can be, but be the
best person you can be.
Coach
Ann is a former swimmer at Belmont High School and continued to
compete at the collegiate level at Springfield College and is well
connected in the local area of high school sports and US Swimming.
Ann is currently coaching Lexington girls and boys high school
swimming and previously coached at Lincoln Sudbury High School for
over 12 years, and continues to coach North Shore Swim Club age
group swimmers. Amongst other credible accomplishments she has also
been involved in coaching the Minuteman Masters Swim Team for 10
plus years and she had an opportunity of a life time to live in
Tokyo Japan for a year and worked as a sports instructor at the
Tokyo YMCA. During the spring season she is the head coach of the
Lexington High School girls varsity tennis team. Ann spends summers
working at White Pond in Concord.
Outside
of the aquatics world, Ann enjoys spending time with her husband
and 3 children doing various activities such as snowmobiling,
hiking, baking and photography. Ann has a fondness of animals as
the family has 3 English Mastiff's names Timber, Diesel and
Chipper.
Coach Chelsea is a former swimmer at Concord-Carlisle High School and continued to compete at the collegiate level at Colby-Sawyer College. She later transferred to Fitchburg State University where she obtained her Bachelor's in Exercise and Sports Science with a minor in psychology. She is currently working on her Masters' in education and strength and conditioning certification with a couple of other degrees to follow, one in sports coaching, and one in psychology. She swam competitively for roughly 15 years with USA Swimming and finished her competitive career with North Shore Swim Club. She has been with NSSC as a swimmer and now a coach for over 10 years. She is also a lifeguard, water safety instructor, and certified pool operator. Chelsea lifeguards at Hanscom Pool. Outside of aquatics, Chelsea enjoys reading, baking, and spending time with family and friends. She is very fond of animals (especially cats and dogs) even though her family does not have any pets.
Coach Jeff grew up in Peabody, MA spending a lot of time in the pool and started to swim competitively for NSSC at age 11. In High School, Jeff competed for St. John's Prep under Coach Tony and won three MIAA Division I State Championships. Coach Jeff went on to swim for University of Tampa and was an NCAA Division II National Qualifier in the 100 Free, 200 Free and 200 IM, and a member of All American 200 and 400 Free Relays. In addition to coaching for NSSC, Jeff is the Aquatics Coordinator at St. John's Prep and going into his second year as the Head Coach of Water Polo and the State Champion Swim/Dive program.
Coach Sarah is from South Carolina and a former swimmer at Hillcrest High School and continues to compete at the collegiate level at Gordon College. She is currently a senior at Gordon and is working to earn her bachelor’s degree in linguistics with minors in speech pathology and neuroscience. Sarah has been swimming since her freshman year in high school and has been working in aquatics, including lifeguarding, coaching and teaching swim lessons for 6 years. When she is not by the pool, Sarah can be found baking, playing cards, and hanging out with her friends, family, and 4 dogs.
Lianne has been coaching swimming for the past 11 years. She was an assistant coach at the Burbank YMCA for 10 years, and has been the head varsity swim coach at Austin Prep for the past 6 years where her team has earned 6 league meet champion titles, and 4 league titles. Lianne received the Eastern Mass Coach of the Year award in 2019. Lianne grew up swimming at the Burbank YMCA, Reading Memorial High School, and swam one season at NSSC before going on to swim at Springfield College. She is the pool director and head swim coach at Meadowbrook Country Club in Reading, Ma, and a full time middle school teacher in Woburn. Lianne is a member of the North Suburban YMCA masters swim team. In her free time Lianne likes to go camping, hiking and fishing with her husband.
Missie
began her competitive swimming as one of Coach Dan Warner’s
first swimmers at the Cape Ann YMCA back in 1978. She was the
backstroker in the 400 meter medley relay that broke the New
England 13-14 age group record. She was the first swimmer to
represent Gloucester High School and then headed to Boston College.
Missie coached at North Andover YMCA for several years and is
currently in her fourth season as the Assistant Coach for
Merrimack College Women’s swimming.
Aside
from coaching, Missie continues to train and compete as a Masters
level swimmer. Her two children, Peter and Jennie, are Division 1
collegiate swimmers. Peter is a senior at Boston College and Jennie
is a junior at Providence College
Bryce swam with North Shore for five years, he also swam with Lexington High School and went on to Keene State College where he was a two year captain and swam the distance events. Bryce graduated this past spring with two majors, one in Secondary Education and another in European History. Currently he is the assistant Coach at Gordon College and works as an Archivist at the college as well.
Jeff enjoys teaching all age groups and brings an enthusiasm for swim technique and effective drills to his practices.
Prior to joining NSSC, Jeff coached the Burbank YMCA you and adult Masters swim teams in Reading, MA since 2015. He enjoys competing in Masters meets and a varity of open water events including the recent completion of a 21 mile triathlon-style SwimRun race in Casco Bay Maine. Jeff works as a senior manager for Sanofi Genzyme. He has a chemical engineering degrees from the University of Maine and Auburn University, as well as an MBA from Boston University. He lives in Wakefield with his wife Melissa and two children Charlotte and Calvin who love being part of the NSSC Gordon College crew.
Tony Padvaiskas, NSSC Program Director: Tony has over 30 years coaching experience. He is a level 4 ASCA certified coach. He has coached numerous YMCA, USA National Qualifiers, Scholastic All Americans and Olympic Trials swimmers, in addition to over 50 High School State champions. Tony was inducted into the St. Johns Prep Hall of Fame in June 2015 and the Massachusetts Swim Coaches Hall of Fame in 2019. He coached the PREP to 14 High School State Championships. Tony has received the honor of "Coach of the Year" from the Boston Globe in 2001,2005 and 2012, and the Salem Evening News in 2006, 2016. He has helped hundreds of students attend Colleges and Universities, including the Ivy League, Division 1, 2, and 3 schools. "Swimming is the tool we use to help our children learn valuable life lessons. It is a privilege to work with incredible young people of great spirit and character of all talent levels". Tony is a member of the St. John's Prep and the Eastern Massachusetts Swim Coaches Hall of fames.